Improvement in ironing-tables



H. GUYER & ANNA NEWTON.

IRONING TABLE.

Patented S'ept.12 ,1876.

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UNITE-D STATES PATENT OEFrcE.

HENRY GUYER, OF NEWARK, AND ANNA NEWTON, OF JERSEY GITY' HEIGHTS, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN lRONlNG-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,069, dated September 12, 1876; application filed August 18, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY GUYER, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, and ANNA NEWTON, of Jersey City Heights, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Ironing-Board, of which the following is a specification Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of our improved ironing-board. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side view; and Fig. 4 abottom view of the same when folded together.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in all the figures.

This invention relates to an improved folding ironing-hoard; and consists in the combination of parts hereinafter described, whereby the board can be quickly and conveniently contracted, and as readily set up for use.

The letter A in the drawing represents the ironing-board. B is the supportingleg hinged to the under side of the board near one end thereof. This leg consists of two standards, a. at, whose upper ends are connected by a cross-bar, b, and of another cross-piece, d, which joins the standards near the middle of their length. The cross-piece d is swiveled in'the standards, so that it may freely turn on its projecting gudgeons, and has a slot cut through its middle for the reception of the stiftening-brace. This brace C isarod hinged with one end at e to the under side'of the board, its other end being introduced through the slot of the swiveled cross-piece d, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. A notch, f, is out into one side of the brace O, and will be in line with the cross-piece 01 when the parts are in the position shown. in Fig. 1, and a wedge, g, placed through the slot of the cross-piece, as in Fig. 2, will lock the brace to the leg by causing the notch f to engage over the sides of the cross-piece d. In this manner we obtain a rigid and reliable supportfor one end of the board, leaving the other end free to be placed on a table and to be introduced through garments to be ironed.

When the Wedge is loosened the brace will be free to slide through the slot of the crosspiece (I, and the leg B may then be folded against the under side of the board A, as in Fig. 4, the brace 0 being by such motion and by its connection with the swiveled crosspiece d, carried into a parallel position, so that it overlaps the cross-bar b, which we prefer to notch for its reception. By a single motion, therefore, the entire supporting mechanism of the board can be folded together and also extended for use.

We claim as our invention- The combination of the ironing-board A, the hinged leg B, having the swiveled slotted cross-piece d, and the brace G hinged to the board A, and extending through the slot of said'swiveled cross-piece d, substantially as specified.

HENRY GUYER. ANNA NEWTON.

Witnesses WM. TWAITZ, J r.,

WM. 0. MATTHEws, 

